The Next Round Of Microsoft Vs. Linux: Health Care
An industry that has long resisted IT automation got a double dose of medicine last week. Both Microsoft and backers of key open source initiatives laid out plans to push IT further into health care--plans that also put the Windows and Linux camps on another collision course.
Red Hat, the largest business Linux distributor, is teaming up with the health care sector's largest company, McKesson, an $88 billion-a-year pharmaceutical and IT supplier. Red Hat will provide a core of Linux and JBoss software geared to run McKesson's clinical applications.
Microsoft has some market clout of its own, and last week it introduced a lineup of health care-focused software. CEO Steve Ballmer predicted health care, despite its laggard reputation, will quickly embrace the tech-driven improvements that banking, retail, and travel have made the last few years. Health care "is one of the greatest opportunities our company has seen in basically our 30-plus years of existence," Ballmer said.
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